Category Archives: iPhone

Do iPhone developers care about the iPad? Here’s a data point…

I picked up an interesting factoid this week from AppStoreHQ – a Founder’s Co-op portfolio company that offers iPhone app search, discovery and social recommendations. In addition to their consumer-facing site, the company also owns and operates iPhoneDevSDK, the leading independent community site for iPhone developers. iPhoneDevSDK has over 20,000 registered members, but also picks continue…

Spam-bashing on Twitter – A True Story

Earlier this week, AppStoreHQ released Hottest Apps on Twitter, a ranking of iPhone apps based on the volume and quality of tweets about each app (if you’re curious, you can read more about the ranking methodology here). The project was a fun one for several reasons, but the biggest eye-opener was the sheer volume of continue…

AppStoreHQ Gets Personal

Sometimes it’s the obvious stuff that’s the hardest to see. The AppStoreHQ team has been hammering away on all kinds of hard technical problems on the topic of helping iPhone owners find iPhone apps. But a friend looked at the site the other day and said something that stopped me dead in my tracks. Instead continue…

You know it’s a bubble when…

One of the most accurate business cliches I know of is this one: “success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Most good entrepreneurs come up with new business ideas constantly, but also know from experience that those ideas have no value if they aren’t backed up with commitment, sustained effort and constant adaptation to market continue…

AppStoreHQ makes the New York Times

I love the New York Times – it’s one of the only publications I still read in paper form (every day, no less), so it’s always a good day when one of my projects gets a mention in the Gray Lady. Today was that day for AppStoreHQ. Roy Furchgott gave us a nice shout-out in continue…